Volker Jaekel: organ, portative (portable, medieval organ) Gert Anklam: saxophones, sheng (Chinese mouth organ) The musicians span a wide range through the ages - from early music to jazz, combining the most diverse musical influences.
Rousing rhythms meet old chorales and new melodies.
Classical music, tangos and jazz merge into a hymn to life, light and hope.
Volker Jaekel: organ, portative (portable, medieval organ)
Gert Anklam: saxophones, sheng (Chinese mouth organ)
The musicians span the ages from early music to jazz, combining the most diverse musical influences. They perform unusual arrangements of old chorales, their own compositions influenced by their collaboration with musicians from other cultures, orchestral soundscapes on the organ, tangos and soulful improvisations.
Organist Volker Jaekel elicits unusual sounds and earthy rhythms from the organ. The fascinating tones of the organ enter into a musical dialog with the sonorous and poetic saxophone of Gert Anklam. In the concert, they will also play two small and rare organs. These are the Chinese Sheng mouth organ and the medieval portative. Their repertoire includes arrangements of works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Edward Grieg, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Astor Piazzolla, Steve Lacy and others.
The entertaining concert is personally moderated by the two Berlin musicians. Lively, unexpected and surprising - an extraordinary concert evening and an exciting musical journey far removed from the usual organ clichés!
